Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Job Summary

We are looking for a Technical Lead with strong expertise in AWS, Node.js, Angular, and MongoDB to drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading a team of developers, defining best practices, and ensuring high-quality code delivery while working in an agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of web applications using Node.js, Angular, and MongoDB.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-based applications on AWS.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to the development team.
• Optimize backend APIs and database queries for performance and scalability.
• Ensure best practices in coding, security, and DevOps for cloud deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX/UI designers, product managers, and DevOps engineers.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure as code on AWS.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvement in system reliability.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and advocate for relevant tech adoption.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js (Fastify/Express), Angular (latest versions), and MongoDB (Mongoose, Aggregations, Indexing).
• Cloud expertise with AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, Code Build, Athena, Glue etc.
• Experience with Microservices Architecture and containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, WebSockets, GraphQL, and authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, SSO).
• Experience with DevOps & CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible).
• Hands-on experience with performance tuning, caching strategies (Redis, CloudFront), and database optimisation.
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with AI/ML integration in applications.
• Knowledge of Serverless Architectures (AWS Lambda, Step Functions).
• Exposure to NoSQL databases like like Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, WebRTC, or real-time data processing.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Opportunity to lead a strong technical team and shape the product architecture.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• A culture that values innovation, ownership, and growth.

Role: Senior Full Stack Java Developer

Company: Feuji Software Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Mode of Hire: Permanent Position

Experience: 5 – 8 years

Work Location: Hyderabad, India

About Feuji

Feuji, established in 2014 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a rapidly growing global technology services provider. With strategic locations including a Nearshore facility in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Offshore Delivery Centers in Hyderabad, and Bangalore, we cater to a diverse clientele.

Our team of 400+ talented engineers specialize in delivering cutting-edge solutions in managed cloud services, cybersecurity, product and quality engineering, and data-driven insights. Collaborating with industry leaders such as Microsoft, HP, GSK, and DXC Technologies, we empower organizations to achieve their business goals.

At Feuji, we prioritize creating 'Happy Teams' and fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and excellence.

Position Summary

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, quality, and release of our organization's web and mobile applications.

Essential Functions

• The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and release of our organization's web and mobile applications. 

• Working closely with Product owners and other stakeholders to understand the business need and design software solutions to meet the product requirements 

• Develops applications using Application programming interfaces (APIs) and service-oriented architecture 

• Develops unit and automation test scripts under the test-driven development lifecycle 

• Contributes to the coding best practices by participating in code reviews and supporting code merges and releases.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

Work Experience

• Typically 5+ years Hands-on object-oriented programming in Java and Javascript (UI) frameworks

Skills

• Understanding of all phases of Software development life cycle

• Software Development Experience with Java

• Experience with UI modern framework like AngularJS or ReactJS

• Experience with microservice architecture, end-to-end UI/API integration, and knowledge of API protocols like REST, gRPC, and graphQL

• Familiar with coding and testing best practices as well as ability to understand complex business problems and design high quality technical solutions.

• Knowledge about the Caching technologies and DBMS technologies like Oracle or MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB

• Strong Problem-solving, communication and organizational skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Design and implement scalable web applications and platforms using technologies such as Typescript, NestJS, Angular, NodeJS, ExpressJS, TypeORM, and Postgres

·         Good understanding of web and REST API design patterns

·         Experience with AWS technologies such as EKS, ECS, ECR, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, ALB will be an added advantage

·         Hands-on experience with unit test frameworks like Jest

·         Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Git

·         Basic knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure as code

·         Basic knowledge of Docker compose and Docker

·         Strong understanding of microservices architecture and ability to implement components independently

·         Proven track record of problem-solving skills

·         Excellent communication skills

We are looking for a experienced engineer with superb technical skills. You will primarily be responsible for architecting and building large scale systems that delivers AI and Analytical solutions to our customers. The right candidate will enthusiastically take ownership in developing and managing a continuously improving, robust, scalable software solutions. The successful candidate will be curious, creative, ambitious, self motivated, flexible, and have a bias towards taking action. As part of the early engineering team, you will have a chance to make a measurable impact as well as having a significant amount of responsibility.

Although your primary responsibilities will be around back-end work, we prize individuals who are willing to step in and contribute to other areas including automation, tooling, and management applications. Experience with or desire to learn Machine Learning a plus.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

•  Bachelors or masters in software engineering, Computer Science or other relevant disciplines
•  2+ years experience as a Back-End or Full Stack Developer with hands-on experience working with Python web application development
•  Strong Knowledge in Python v3.x Language
•  Experience in REST APIs with JSON
•  Error handling and Logging 
•  Any DB knowledge 
•  Knowledge on Sumo Logic log aggregation is a plus
• Must know how to produce high quality, “Clean” code that is performant, maintainable and secure

• Sound knowledge of Flutter framework & DART language
• Experience with Material Design and UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Architecture, design and development of distributed web based solutions based on J2EE architecture (Spring boot, Hibernate/JPA, REST) or PHP Laravel framework
• Proficient with Data Modelling, Object Oriented Design
• RDBMS and NoSql database (MongoDB)
• Experience in event driven & Microservices architecture
• Exposure to Agile, behaviour driven development, TDD , CI/CD
• Be self-driven and take ownership of deliverables end to end
• Working knowledge of HTML/ CSS

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!